WSOU/South Orange, NJ Collects Water To Assist Newark Residents

Assistant Sports Director Jose Feliciano And Sports Director Dalton Allison (Photo: Mark Maben)

It may have slipped from the headlines, but residents of NEW JERSEY’s largest city remain challenged by lead-contaminated drinking water. While problems with residential water filters were recently addressed, pregnant women and children under six years of age are still being advised to avoid drinking city water, even if it has been filtered, and to use bottled water instead.  

The City of NEWARK, home to 285,000 residents, has only two distribution centers for free bottled water for children and pregnant women. This vulnerable population is limited to just two cases of water every two weeks regardless of household size. 

To help address the need of pregnant women and children under six years to have access to bottled water, the students of SETON HALL UNIVERSITY noncommercial Active Rock WSOU/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ recently held a water drive. The cases of water collected will be distributed to Newark residents through the Women and Children’s Center at St. John’s Soup Kitchen. The station delivered the water on October 17th. 

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